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I'll double down this. Deeper Blue, IBM's machine that crushed Kasparov in the iconic chess match in 1997, has less computing power than an GTX 1070. So my comp
by unnouinceput 6y ago
I'll double down this. Deeper Blue, IBM's machine that crushed Kasparov in the iconic chess match in 1997, has less computing power than an GTX 1070. So my computer, 20 years later, is more powerful and it plays Flight Simulator in glorious ultra details.
- monsieurbanana 6y agoThat a GPU from 2016 is more powerful than a supercomputer from 1997 is unsurprising. Does anyone know around which year consumer computers started being more powerful than Deeper Blue? Wikipedia says Deeper Blue was rated at 11 GFLOPS, which is... nothing, by modern standards. The GTX 3080ti is rated at 30000 FP32 GFLOPS. On another hand, comparing GFLOPS from Deeper Blue vs a modern gpu FP32 GFLOPS is probably meaningless.
- adgjlsfhk1 6y agoEspecially since deep blue didn't use floating point operations.
- FartyMcFarter 6y agoDeeper Blue was not a general purpose computer, it had loads of chess-specific hardware. So it's tricky and not very meaningful to compare it to modern computers.